FORCED EVICTIONS
COHRE December 2006 10
Global Survey on Forced Evictions
Violations of Human Rights
COHRE December 2006 DRAFT
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Centre on Housing Rights & Evictions COHRE Global Forced Evictions Programme (COHRE) (GFEP) COHRE International Secretariat COHRE Americas Programme (CAP) COHRE Housing & Property Restitution Programme (HPRP) CAP – US Office COHRE Women & Housing Rights Programme (WHRP) COHRE Asia & Pacific Programme (CAPP) COHRE ESC Rights Litigation Programme (LP) COHRE Africa Programme COHRE Right to Water Programme (RWP) Forced Evictions: Violations of Human Rights - Global Survey 10 see
Table of Contents
Preface...... 5
1. Introduction...... 7
2. Forced Evictions 2003 - 2006...... 12
Africa 13 Asia and the Pacific 61 The Americas 35 Europe 89
3. Threatened or Planned Evictions...... 97
Africa 98 Asia and the Pacific 112 The Americas 103 Europe 119 4. United Nations General Comment No. 7 on Forced Evictions (1997)...... 122
5. United Nations Comprehensive Human Rights Guidelines on Development-Based Displacement (1997)...... 128
6. Publications available from COHRE...... 135
Preface
Global Survey
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Introduction
Introduction
Global Survey No. 10 Causes and Effects
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International Legal Obligations
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 11(1) Article 11(1) • • • • • • • • • •
A Global Problem
Estimated Number of Reported Forced Evictions by Region: 2003 -2006 * Persons Total 4,277,607 * Unless more specific data was available, estimates were constructed using the following equivalencies: 1 family = 5 persons; 1 community/area/village/town = 200 persons; 1 flat or house = 5 persons; 1 room = 3 persons; 1 apartment building = 100 persons; “thousands” or “hundreds” = 3.000 persons or 300 persons, respectively; 1 group of families = 50 persons; 1 settlement/neighbourhood/camp/encampment/quarter = 50 persons; entire region of a country = 10.000 persons; “a number of”/”several”/many/numerous = 5 persons or families, depending on the specification made within the text. Global Survey
ICESCR: Yes ICESCR: No Global Survey No. 10 Global Survey No. 10
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Forced Evictions 2003-2006
Africa
Angola • • • • • • Angola: mass forced evictions in Luanda – a call for a human rights-based housing policy , Pambazuka News
• ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Botswana
HRW calls for humane treatment of expelled DRC workers Angola-Guinea: Deported Guineans complain of ill treatment
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Burundi • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Democratic Republic of Congo • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Egypt • • ‘ Evictions Monitor
• • • • • • • • The New York Times El-Hurriah Dwellers go on a Hunger Strike to defend their Housing Rights, Forced eviction and housing demolitions in Zenhom area
Rural evictions • • • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Equatorial Guinea • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Ethiopia • •
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ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: The Gambia ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Ghana •
• • • Bremark Venture Limited ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Kenya
Ghana Web
• • • • • • • Listening to the Poor? Housing Rights in Nairobi, Kenya, Evictions Monitor Listening to the Poor? Housing Rights in Nairobi, Kenya
Forest areas • • • •
The Standard Daily The Mail & Guardian The Nation Kenya Housing Rights Update ,
• • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Liberia • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Namibia •
Kenya Broadcast Corporation ReliefWeb BBC News The Standard Kenya Housing Rights Update , Kenya Housing Rights Update , The Analyst
• • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Nigeria
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The Namibian All Africa , Nigeria: Forced evictions in Lagos make thousands homeless, Evictions Monitor
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Ogoni: The Demolition of the Agip Waterside Nigeria: Making the destitute homeless – forced evictions in Makoko, Lagos State Nigeria: Forced evictions in Lagos make thousands homeless
• • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Somalia • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
South Africa City of Johannesburg
The Daily Independent The Vanguard BBC News, Somalia: Window of opportunity for addressing one of the world’s worst internal displacement crisis
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Any Room for the Poor? Forced Evictions in Johannesburg, South Africa , The Independent Online SABC News ,
• • • • • Other areas • •
SAPA The Star The Star The Star ‘ SABC News
• • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Sudan • Pretoria News Still Searching For Security: The reality of farm dweller evictions in South Africa
• • • Sudan Tribune Wikipedia Merowe Dam Update: More than 2,200 Amri families homeless African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights: Oral statement on forced evictions in Africa
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Uganda • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
AllAfrica The Daily Monitor All Africa
Zimbabwe Operation Murambatsvina • Land Housing and Property Rights in Zimbabwe [pdf on website] Report on the Fact-Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to assess the scope and impact of Operation Murambatsvina by the UN Special Envoy on Human Settlement Issues in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe – thousands of forced evictions and arrests in violent crackdown Report on the Fact-Finding Mission to Zimbabwe to assess the scope and impact of Operation Murambatsvina by the UN Special Envoy on Human Settlement Issues in Zimbabwe
• Other evictions • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: The Americas
Argentina Buenos Aires • Shattered Lives–the case of Porta Farm Zimbabwe: ten dead following police misuse of tear gas The Herald Zimbabwe Independent The Zimbabwe Independent SW Radio Africa [online news service]
• • • • • • La Nacion La Nacion Clarin Clarin Inforegion Clarin Pagina 12
Other areas: • • • • • • Evictions Monitor, Pagina 12 Prensa Obrera Tiempo Fueguino Linea Capital
• • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Bolivia • •
Clarin Infobae El Independente Primera Fuente Adital
• Movimiento sin Tierras y sin Techo • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Brazil São Paulo barracos favelas’ •
Los Tiempos La Prensa Grafica La Patria El Nuevo Dia
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Violaçoes dos direitos humanos no centro de Sao Paulo Folha Folha Folha Fohla Diario Do Grande ABC
• • • The Landless Workers’ Movement Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra • Centro de midia independente Panorama Brasil Diario Do Grande ABC Folha
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Other areas • • Veja Parana PM cerca ginásio em Batatais onde estão Sem Terra acampados Fohla Diario Do Grande ABC Violência em despejo deixa três sem terra feridos em Alagoas Terra de Direitos
• • • • • • Retirada de invasores continua nesta quarta Centro de Midia Independente , Adital Prefeitura de Fortaleza Comunidade Rosalina
• • • Eviction of indigenous groups: • • Diario do Grande ABC , Diario do Grande ABC Diario Do Grande ABC Fazendo Media Indigenous Brazilians forced from their land
152 Candonga Dam • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Brazil: Twenty Tupinikim and Guarani Indians injured in police evictions , ( Quilombolas são retirados de suas terras tradicionais
Chile • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Colombia • • El Mostrador El Gobernador Juan Jose Chaux, no actua con la razon sino con el odio hacia los idios
• • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Costa Rica •
Evento: Desplazamiento masivo en Chocó, Colombia El Heraldo Indymedia Colombia Adital
• • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Cuba • • El Veja ’, El Nuevo Diario El Mundo Cuba Net Cuba Net ,
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ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Dominican Republic • • • • Cuba Encuentro Cuba Net Alter Presse Alter Presse El Nacional ,
• • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Ecuador • • • El National Hoy Digital Dominican Today La Hora Fuerteventura Cre
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: El Salvador • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Guatemala •
Diario Co Latino La Prensa Grafica The Wire ,
• • • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Guatemala: Evictions are not the answer to land conflicts , La Hora , Terra Telediario , Cerigua Prensa Libre
Honduras • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Mexico • • • •
Honduras, Denuncia otro violento desalojo a la comunidad Lenca de las Golondrinas Proceso El Universal Proceso Vanguardia
• • • • • • • El Universal Vanguardia El Universal El Diario Vivir Aqui Proceso
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Nicaragua • • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
El Vigia El Nuevo Diario El Nuevo Diario El Nuevo Diario El Nuevo Diario
Paraguay • • • • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Indymedia Colombia [online newspaper] Paraguay: MCNOC denuncia desalojo violento Los Tiempos Jakueke Adital
Peru • • • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: United States of America 24 Horas Actualidad Etnica 24 Horas RPP La Republica Forced Evictions – Towards Solutions?,
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Alameda Sun
• • Evictions in New Orleans following the hurricane Katrina • NY Newsday New York Times 11Alive WIStv
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Venezuela • •
The Guardian Starbulletin ABN Globovision
• • • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Asia and the Pacific
Bangladesh Dhaka evictions • El Tiempo Globovision El Universal Nueva Prensa El Universal ,
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Weekly Holiday The Daily Star OneWorld South Asia The Daily Star Bangladesh Web The Daily Star The Daily Star
Evictions in other areas • • • • • •
The Daily Star The Bangladesh Observer The Daily Star The New Nation The Daily Star Bangladesh Web
• • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Cambodia • • Bangladesh Web ( The Financial Express Frenzied development in Cambodia pushes its people out of the capital to squalid conditions Voice of America
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Authorities destroy people’s livelihood and freedom of enterprise The Cambodia Daily Concern about the forced eviction of 168 families living near Prevah Monivong hospital The Cambodia Daily
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
China
Evictions Monitor Radio Free Europe AsiaNews.it
Shanghai evictions • 2008 Olympics, Beijing
• Rural evictions China Daily China Daily BBC News The Times Online Taipei Times
• • Other evictions in China • •
Al Jazeera BBC News Radio Free Europe The Standard The Epoch Times
• Three Gorges Dam • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Georgia • China Daily Violence and Harassment in Xi’an Clearance China: Forced resettlement, ill-treatment of villagers, recovery of Mr. Fu Xiancai
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
India Mumbai evictions • •
Georgia: IDP plight still precarious despite new leadership’s initiative, The Guardian
• Evictions in Manipur State: • • • •
World Bank suspends support to major Indian Urban Transport One World Net The Imphal Free Press , The Sangai Express The Imphal Free Press
• • • Evictions in New Delhi • The Sangai Express , The Imphal Free Press, , The Imphal Free Press , The Imphal Free Press , Over 300,000 people to be forcefully evicted from Yamuna Pushta in Delhi: 40,000 homes demolished so far
• Evictions in Kolkata • • Evictions of indigenous people •
The Times of India The Telegraph India: Calcutta High Court again violates fundamental rights of thousands through barbaric eviction order The Telegraph Express News Service
• • Evictions in other areas • • •
Frontline Magazine ,
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Indonesia Jakarta evictions: • •
NDTV Condemned Communities: Forced Evictions in Jakarta Penggusuran dalam Perspektif HAM: Studi Kasus di Provinsi DKI Jakarta Periode 2003-2004 (Evictions from a Human Rights Perspective in Jakarta Privince for the Period of 2003–2004) Forced Evictions in Jakarta, Indonesia
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The Jakarta Post The Jakarta Post Jakarta Post Jakarta Post Jakarta Post
• Other evictions in Indonesia: • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Iraq • Sidewalk merchants reject eviction After Lebaran the eviction began again Jakarta Post
• ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Israel and occupied Palestine de facto • • •
IRIN News Displaced by the Wall: Forced Displacement as a Result of the West Bank Wall and its Associated Regime UN News Centre
• • • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Japan • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Kyrgyzstan • Evictions Monitor Forced evictions in Nagoya Forced Eviction of 64 Families in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Lebanon • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Malaysia • • Israel/Lebanon Deliberate destruction or “collateral damage”? Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure The Daily Star Daily Express News
• • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Myanmar • •
Daily Express News Daily Express Malaysia ( The Star Online Myanmar/ The Rohingya Minority: Fundamental Rights Denied
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Nepal • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Pakistan Lyari Expressway evictions
Forced Relocation, Restrictions and Abuses in Nyaunglebin District Rajdhani Forced Evictions – Towards Solutions?
• Other Karachi evictions • • • • • • The Jang State of Human Rights 2004 – Housing Eviction Watch Report Karachi, January – June 2005
• • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Papua New Guinea • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: The Philippines North and South Rail Project evictions Radio New Zealand International
• Other evictions • • Railway Rehabilitation Project in the Eyes of Different Stakeholders , Philippine gov’t commits massive HR violations in railroad projects ‘Indigenous peoples’ right to adequate housing: A global overview, United Nations Housing Rights Programme Report No. 7’
• • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Sri Lanka • Sun Star Baguio Asian Coalition for Housing Rights Philippine Daily Inquirer , Manila Times Sri Lanka: Waiting to go home -the plight of the internally displaced ,
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Thailand • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Turkey • • • ı
The Nation The Christian Science Monitor Terra Daily Turkey: Roma districts demolished during Urban Transformation Projects
• • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Turkmenistan • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Viet Nam •
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ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Europe
Albania • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Bosnia and Herzegovina • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Bulgaria • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Czech Republic •
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: France •
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Greece
Athens Olympics 2004 • • ERRC v. Greece Conclusions XVIII-1 (Greece),
Other evictions • • • •
ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Ireland • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Italy • • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Montenegro •
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ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Russian Federation • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Slovakia •
World Report 2004
• ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: Spain • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR: United Kingdom • • ‘ Indymedia UK
• • • • ICESCR: ICCPR: 1OP-ICCPR:
Evictions Monitor, , The Guardian BBC News, BBC News,
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Threatened or Planned Forced Evictions
Africa
Botswana •
Cameroon • Ethiopia • Ghana •
Daily News Online The Post , Ethiopia: Dutch conservation organization involved in eviction of thousands of tribal people
• Kenya •
A Precarious Future: The Informal Settlement of Agbogbloshie Evictions Monitor Daily Graphic
Malawi • Morocco • Niger • Nigeria • Listening to the Poor? Housing Rights in Nairobi, Kenya , BBC News Maghreb Arabe Presse Inter Press Service News Agency
• South Africa •
• Swaziland • • • Tanzania •
Any Room for the Poor: Forced Evictions in Johannesburg, South Africa , Indymedia IRIN news The Swazi Observer
Uganda • Zimbabwe • The Americas
Argentina • . • Programa de Recuperación de la Traza de la Ex AU3. Ipp Media The Daily Monitor Mail & Guardian Claris
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Clarin Pagina 12 Ciudadjujuy Indymedia , DERF La Voz del Interior Territorio Digital
• Brazil • Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra, MST • • Sociedade de Melhoramento de Colonização • •
Prensa de Frente Acampamento Chico Mendes (PE) é ameaçado de segundo despejo Radio Bras Midiamax Panorama Brasil
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Midiamax Indymedia Centro de midia independente Forced Evictions – Towards Solutions? 24Horas , Folha
Bolivia •
Chile •
Colombia • • Cuba •
El Mundo El Gong Noticias , El Diario del Otun Cuba Net
• Dominican Republic • • • Ecuador • El Salvador • Cuba Net Dominican Today Desalojo en Parque del Este Hoy Digital El Mercurio
• • Guatemala • Mexico • • Hospital de la Purísima Concepción y de Jesús Nazareno
Diario Co Latino La Prensa Grafica Adital La Jornada ,
• Panama •
Paraguay • • Peru • Periferico Vial Norte’ , Trinidad and Tobago • La Cronica de Hoy El Universal Prensa , ABC Forced Evictions – Towards Solutions?
Uruguay • Venezuela • • • • Trinidad and Tobago Express El Pais The Daily Journal Online Nuevaprensa El Universal Correo del Caroni ,
• Asia and the Pacific
Bangladesh • • • ABN Probe News Magazine The Observer ,
• Cambodia • • •
The Daily Star , The Cambodian Daily
China • • Georgia • India • • China Daily , Central News Agency Tribune News Service
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Sardar Sarovar Dam • Indonesia •
, The Hindu The Hindu BBC News Press release: No displacement in the name of tourism ,
Japan • • Laos • Malaysia •
, The Korea Times BBC News
• • Myanmar • Pakistan • •
Daily Express News Daily Express News Daily Express News Burma Digest , Forced Evictions – Towards Solutions?
The Philippines • • • South Korea • Sri Lanka • Turkey • Sun Star, Zamboanga, Philippine Daily Inquirer South Korea: Elderly farmers forcibly evicted for US army base Tamil Net
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Europe
Bulgaria •
Greece • France • Expatica
United Kingdom • •
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United Nations General Comment No. 7 on Forced Evictions
United Nations General Comment No. 7 on forced evictions
UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS, GENERAL COMMENT NO. 7 ON THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING (ART.11.1): FORCED EVICTIONS
1. prima facie 2. 3.
4. 5. 6. 7. 8. inter alia 9.
10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
15. 16. 17. inter alia 18. 19.
20. inter alia 21.
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United Nations Comprehensive Human Rights Guidelines on Development-Based Displacement (1997)
The Practice of Forced Evictions: United Nations Comprehensive Human Rights Guidelines on Development-Based Displacement
ADOPTED BY THE EXPERT SEMINAR ON THE PRACTICE OF FORCED EVICTIONS
PREAMBLE
Recalling
Whereas
Recalling
Reaffirming
Reaffirming
Whereas
Recognizing
Conscious that
Conscious also
Resolved
SECTION ONE: BACKGROUND ISSUES
Scope and Nature of the Guidelines SECTION TWO: GENERAL OBLIGATIONS
SECTION THREE: SPECIFIC PREVENTATIVE OBLIGATIONS
The Obligation of Maximum Effective Protection The Obligation to Prevent Homelessness The Obligation to Adopt Appropriate Measures of Law and Policy The Obligation to Explore All Possible Alternatives The Obligation to Expropriate Only as a Last Resort
SECTION FOUR: THE RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS Integrity of the Home Assurances of Security of Tenure SECTION FIVE: LEGAL REMEDIES Restitution and Return
Resettlements
SECTION SIX: MONITORING SECTION SEVEN: SAVINGS Savings Clause
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Publications Available from COHRE
COHRE SOURCES SERIES Legal Resources for the Right to Water: International & National Standards Housing & Property Restitution for Refugees & IDPs: Basic Standards International Events and Forced Evictions Women & Housing Rights Legal Resources for Housing Rights: International and National Standards Forced Evictions & Human Rights: A Manual for Action Selected Bibliography on Housing Rights & Evictions COHRE GLOBAL SURVEYS ON FORCED EVICTIONS Forced Evictions: Violations of Human Rights Forced Evictions: Violations of Human Rights Forced Evictions: Violations of Human Rights Forced Evictions: Violations of Human Rights COHRE COUNTRY-RELATED REPORTS Listening to the Poor, Housing Rights in Nairobi, Kenya Any Room for the Poor? Forced Evictions in Johannesburg, South Africa Ruling Palestine: A History of the Legally Sanctioned Jewish-Israeli Seizure of Land & Housing in Palestine, Defensa del Derecho a la Vivienda de la Plobación Desplazada en Colombia [Defending the Housing Rights of Displaced Persons in Colombia] Direito a Moradia e Territorios Etnicos: Protecao Legal e Violacao de Direitos das Communidades de Quilombos no Brasil [The Right to Housing & Ethnic Territories: Legal Protection & Violations of Quilombos Communities’ Rights in Brazil Housing Rights in Brazil: Gross Inequalities & Inconsistencies El Derecho a la Vivienda en Argentina [Housing Rights in Argentina: Challenges for Promoting the Right to Adequate Housing] Housing Rights in Nicaragua: Historical Complexities & Current Challenges El Derecho a la Vivienda en Nicaragua: Complejidades Históricas y Retos Actuales Housing Rights in West Africa: Report of Four Fact-Finding Missions A Precarious Future: The Informal Settlement of Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana
Continuing the Struggle for Justice & Accountability in Guatemala: Making Reparations a Reality in the Chixoy Dam Case Violence: The Impact of Forced Evictions on Women in Palestine, India & Nigeria Land, Housing & Property Rights in Zimbabwe Housing Rights Violations in Bangladesh: We Didn’t Stand a Chance Housing Rights in Latvia Better Late Than Never: Housing Rights in East Timor The Status of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Solomon Islands: Moving Forward and Maintaining the Past Still Waiting: Housing Rights Violations in a Land of Plenty: The Kobe Earthquake & Beyond Economic, Social & Cultural Rights Violations in Chiapas, Mexico in the Context of Counter-Insurgency Low Intensity Warfare Against Mainly Mayan Sectors of the Population St. Vincent & the Grenadines & the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Prima Facie Violations of Article 11 (1) of the Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights by the Government of the Philippines OTHER COHRE BOOKS & REPORTS
Defending the Housing Rights of Children The Road to a Remedy: Current Issues in Litigation of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights A Place to Live: Women’s Inheritance Rights in Africa Bringing Equality Home: Promoting & Protecting the Inheritance Rights of Women: A Survey of Law and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa The Human Right to Adequate Housing: A Chronology of United Nations Activity 1945 – 1999 When Push Comes to Shove: Forced Evictions & Human Rights Destruction by Design, Housing Rights Violations in Tibet COHRE SERIES ON ENFORCING HOUSING RIGHTS
Leading Cases on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights: Summaries The Pinheiro Principles Litigating Economic, Social & Cultural Rights: Achievements, Challenges & Strategies Enforcing Housing Rights in the Americas: Pursuing Housing Rights Claims within the Inter-American System of Human Rights COHRE ACTIVITY/PROGRESS REPORTS
COHRE Activity Report 2003-2005 Achieving Housing for All Protecting Housing Rights, Preventing Evictions: COHRE Activity Report 2000-2002 Housing Rights for Everyone, Everywhere: COHRE Progress Report: July 1998 – December 1999 COHRE Progress Report: January 1996 – December 1998
COHRE DOCUMENTARY FILMS